Do Americans Have a Moral Conscience?
By: Paul Craig Roberts|28 May, 2009|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Americans . Conscience? . Moral
Succumbing to the dark side Torture is a violation of US and international law. Yet, president George W. Bush and vice president Dick Cheney, on the basis of legally incompetent memos prepared by Justice Department officials, gave the OK to interrogators to violate US and international law. The new Obama administration shows no inclination to uphold the rule of law…
Read more »How things change out from under us
By: Paul Craig Roberts|12 May, 2009|Categories: Growing Up In America Series|Tags: Boy Scouts . Buddy Sikes . Charles Atlas . neighborhood . PE . Randolph Scott . second amendment
Anyone who has been around for awhile and who pays any attention to news sees many disturbing changes. Recently I read a news report that two children, ages seven and eight, had an altercation at school during recess. They were carted off handcuffed by police. The teachers or principal had dealt with the boys’ disagreement by bringing in the police.…
Read more »Record Shows “Hate Crimes Prevention Bill” Will Suppress Speech
By: Paul Craig Roberts|08 May, 2009|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: corrupt organizations act . exxon valdez accident . federal bureaucrats . navigable waters . racial discrimination
A statute’s words do not tell how the law will be interpreted and applied. All laws are expansively interpreted. For example: The Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) was directed at drug lords. Nothing in the law says anything about divorce; yet it soon was applied in divorce cases. The 1964 Civil Rights Act explicitly bans racial quotas and…
Read more »Exempting Israel from Criticism
By: Paul Craig Roberts|07 May, 2009|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: crucifixion of jesus . department of state . prevention act . rest of the world . us department of state
On October 16, 2004, President George W. Bush signed the Israel Lobby’s bill, the Global Anti-Semitism Review Act. This legislation requires the US Department of State to monitor anti-semitism world wide. To monitor anti-semitism, it has to be defined. What is the definition? Basically, as defined by the Israel Lobby and Abe Foxman, it boils down to any criticism of…
Read more »Jack Kemp: American Hero
By: Paul Craig Roberts|03 May, 2009|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: the breakdown of the keynesian model roberts
[Peter Brimelow has questions here] Hon. Jack French Kemp passed away on May 2 at 73 years of age. Kemp won many battles, but lost his fight with cancer. Jack F. Kemp had an improbable career. A bottom-tier professional football pick (203rd) who was cut from five teams, Kemp became a seven-time all-star quarterback and led the Buffalo Bills to…
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